This could go into the deep end, yet there are iconic gestures that we within the GenX and previous generation or two. As far back as the 1930s, the television and movie gestures continue to be part of our nostalgia and, perhaps, comical relief.
The slap stick trio known as The Three Stooges had a number of trademark gestures in which many of us can mimic and easily identify.
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Curly with the Emily Posts from Hoi Poloi.
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The signature eye poke with the counter move hand block between Moe and Curly depicted here in the color remastered Disorder in the Court.
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We move up about 30 years to the Vulcan salute delivered primarily from a favorite actor and character Leonard Nimoy/Spock. His trademark V typically delivered with the "Live Long and Prosper" phrase is actually of his own inspiration derived from witnessing, as he peeked, this very gesture while attending his family's Orthodox Jewish Synagogue or "Shul" was displayed by a group of 5 to 6 men who delivered a Hebrew benediction. Nimoy's recommendation to use this gesture as a greeting in the Star Trek series Amok Time as he conversed with the director was accepted and ultimately cemented into our culture.
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The balance gesture during the opening credit/intro to Laverne & Shirley was another iconic gesture, perhaps more in our youth than in our adulthood. Yet a gesture we can harken back to in our minds.
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Though not a gesture, I couldn't help but add the glove atop a beer bottle traveling the conveyor line as it is similarly an iconic scene and gesture, albeit mechanical, in our pop culture. It was even reprised during the 1992 Wayne's World movie.
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While "the jazz" didn't seem to stick very well, Hannibal Smith's signature putting on his flight gloves in preparation for a hand-to-hand brawl was a simple but iconic gesture.
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While many, many people have delivered the thumbs up, no one has ever made it a sensation as Henry Winkler's/Fonzi's "heyyyy" thumbs up.
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These are the confusing gestures as there are two gestures, but one saying "nanu-nanu." The ear wiggle salute as Robin Williams/Mork bids farewell to Orsen and the Orken handshake as seen with the second photo of Mork and Pam Dawber/Mindy. Both are nostalgic gestures.
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Alec Guinness'/Obi Wan Kenobi's Jedi Mind Trick is a great trademark gesture, although I don't believe this would work to get you out of a traffic violation.
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Arguably not a simple gesture, Alfonso Ribeiro/Carlton Banks' dance is sheer genius and an equally iconic gesture easily recognized.
An icon by his own right, his Woo Hoo! gesture is equally a trademark gesture.
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Are you Too (2) Legit To (2) Quit? MC Hammer's dance moves are equally as iconic as this gesture.Share your pop culture gestures with us...we do ask that you keep it clean though!
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